Railway buffer stop



Oct. 29, 1935. K- JAEGER 2,019,135

RAILWAY BUFFER vSTOP Filed Jan. 18, 1932 2 sheets-sheet 1 0ct. 29,'1935. K. JAEGER '2,019,135

RAILWAY BUFFER STOP Patented Oct. 29, 1935 y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICERAILWAY BUFFER STOP Karl Jaeger, Brandenburg-on-the-HaveL GermanyApplication January 18, 1932, Serial No. 587,254 In Great BritainJanuary 21, 1931 Claims. (Cl. 104-254) This invention concernsimprovements in buffer tent the ends of the bars 22 engage the stops 23stops of the kind in which the buffer block is and pull forward thesleeper 24, so that there is connected by auxiliary rails or the like tomovno appreciable length of rails unsupported by able sleepers adaptedto be dragged over the track a sleeper.

5 ballast. When, as has hitherto been the case, WhatIc1aimis:-

the sleepers come into action succesively they 1. A railway buffer stopcomprising a movable are liable to cant round relatively to the runningblock, movable sleepers, means connecting said rails, thus forcing outthe keys or tending to break block and sleepers, said means allowingrelative the keys or chairs. movement of the sleepers with respectthereto in According to the invention to overcome this emergency, andmeans for spacing said sleepers 10 the sleepers are spaced or connectedtomove in at a constant distance apart and forcing them to parallelism,While at the same time the sleepers move in parallelism at such constantdistance are connected in known manner to the auxiliary apart. rails soas to be slidable relatively thereto in 2. A railway butler stopcomprising a movable emergency. By spacing the sleepers by Wooden block,movable sleepers, means connecting said blocks or the like all may movesimultaneously if block and sleepers. said means allo-wing relativedesired, but clearly the sleepers may be moved in movement of thesleepers with respect thereto in groups to provide a cumulative buiiingaction. emergency, and compression spacing members In order that theinvention may be readily between said sleepers for maintaining them atunderstood, one embodiment Will be described a constant separationthroughout movement with reference to the annexed drawings,wherethereof.

in: 3. A railway bulTer sto-p comprising a mov- Fig. 1 is a plan viewand able block, movable sleepers, means connecting Fig. 2 a sideelevation. said block and sleepers, said means allowing rela- The buerblock I0 is connected by means of tive movement of the sleepers withrespect there- 25 suitable brackets II to the trusses I2 which at to inemergency, and spacing means for causing their lower ends are connectedto the auxiliary groups of sleepers to move simultaneously in rails i3by means of buckles I4. In the exparallelism and at constant distancesapart from ample shown there are four rails I3 disposed in .one another.pairs laterally of the running rails I5. 'Ihese 4. A railway buffer stopcomprising a movable rails I5 are mounted on the sleepers I6 by chairsbuning member, auxiliary rails adjacent the rail- Il in the usualmanner, and the rails I3 are conway running rails, sleepers under allsaid rails, nected to the sleepers by clamps I8 soi that relameansconnecting the bufling member and the r tive movement between the railsI3 and sleepers auxiliary rails, and means connecting the aux- 3" ispossible in an emergency. The sleepers are iliary rails and thesleepers, said second-named spaced apart by means of Wooden or likeblocks connecting means causing simultaneous movei9, and are adapted tobe engaged by brackets ment of the sleepers with the auxiliary railsunder provided on the rails i3 when the latter are normal shocks andpermitting simultaneous slipmoved by the impact of a locomotive truck orthe page between the auxiliary rails and sleepers 40 like against thebutler block. It will be underunder abnormal impact upon the buningmemstood that the brackets 25 may slide on the rails ber. I3 in anemergency in the same manner that 5. A railway buffer stop comprising amovable the rails I3 may slide in clamps I8 in such case. bufng member,auxiliary rails adjacent the rail- It will be seen that by the blocks I9the sleepers way running rails, sleepers under all said rails, arecaused to move in parallelism, and therefore means connecting the buingmember and the cannot twist with respect to the running rails, auxiliaryrails, spacing members located between so that the keys and chairs ofthe latter are prothe sleepers for initially spacing the sleepers andtected against damage. maintaining said spacing during operation, andThe sleepers may be hauled back into normal means connecting theauxiliary rails and the 50 position after displacement by means of thevsleepers, said second-named connecting means strap 2|. causingsimultaneous movement of the sleepers The ends of the rails I3 areprovided with bars with the auxiliary rails under normal shocks and 22co-operating with stops 23 on a sleeper 24 permitting simultaneousslippage between the which before the buffer is used is close to thelast auxiliary rails and sleepers under abnormal im- 55 xed sleeper 2Eof the permanent way. When pact upon the -buing member.

the buiTer has been moved to the maximum ex- KARL JAEGER.

